Hawaiian Shirts to be Unofficial Garb for EE Live 2014!

Do you realize that it's close to a year since I narrowly survived a Hawaiian Shirt Catastrophe. As you may recall, in the wee hours of the morning, the shelves in our bedroom closet collapsed under the weight of my Hawaiian shirt collection.

As it turned out, this was probably for the best. For reasons unknown, Hawaiian shirts tend to shrink as the years pass by. Before you know it, none of your favorites fit you anymore. Thus it was that I ended up taking around 200 old Hawaiian shirts to my local goodwill store. All last summer, there was a noticeable increase in the number of people sporting Hawaiian shirts in the less salubrious parts of town.

On the bright side, this prompted me to start building up a new collection of Hawaiian shirts that actually fit me. Generally speaking, that's all I wear these days (well, along with jeans or shorts, of course). This means that one of my first decisions of the day is to select my "shirt du jour," which makes me happy and puts a smile on my face from the get-go.

Max, I have an etiquette question: would you prefer that we let you be "the guy in the Hawaiian shirt" or should we all flatter/imitate you by wearing our own Hawaiian shirts? I have a really nice one.

Well, what can I say? This brings a little tear to my eye. It would be my greatest wish come true to see the exhibition floor at EE Live! replete with Hawaiian shirts as far as the eye can see. There is, of course, no official dress code for EE Live! However, maybe we can declare Hawaiian shirts as being the official unofficial dress code. Ideally, everyone will wear Hawaiian shirts throughout the show. But if not, then at the very least it would be wonderful if everyone was sporting them at the party in the exhibition hall on Tuesday, April 1 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

I don’t care what anyone says -- everyone looks better in a Hawaiian shirt and everyone feels happier when they are wearing one of these little beauties.

What's that you say? You haven’t got a Hawaiian shirt and you don’t know from whence one can be obtained? Oh, the humanity! Well fear not, because the guys and gals at Good Hawaiian Shirts have some corkers. So, what do you say? Are you with me?

@max, well at least your closet didn't leak because of an ice dam on the roof. That happened to me. Then the ice dam slid off the roof and hit my neighbor's house, destroying a screen. Now I'm having a roofer install show guards to prevent that from happening again. They'd better get here soon and finish today because it's going to snow again on Monday.

@MeasurementBlues: ...and where do you keep these items, on the floor?

Actually, it was the upper rack that collapsed -- I keep on meaning to put it back up - -but since I gave most of the old clothes to the goodwill, the lower rack is only partially used with my T-shirts, Hawaiian shirts, and jeans ... so there's no rush :-)

In 2007, the IEEE EMC Society held it's annual Symposium in Honolulu. I saved my air miles to pay for my wife's ticket and paid for my daughter's. We left a week early, and flew into Maui for a few days then went to the big island, then to Honolulu. We were gone 10 days in all. Best trip ever. Snorkeling was great.

What happens when a conference is in Hawaii is the conference will get a record number of paper submissions (I wonder why). It seems there were more presenters than attendees. Exhibitors sent fewer people to the booths and I jnew afew people who expected to go but were pulled on short notice when their companies decided to cut back.